psittacosis

Noun

psit=ta=co=sis

WORDNET DICTIONARY

psittacosis(n = noun.state) parrot disease - infectious disease of birds; Array

is a kind of animal disease

psittacosis(n = noun.state) ornithosis, parrot fever - an atypical pneumonia caused by a rickettsia microorganism and transmitted to humans from infected birds; Array

is a kind of atypical pneumonia, mycoplasmal pneumonia, primary atypical pneumonia

psittacosis, n. a contagious viral disease of birds transmissible (esp. from parrots) to human beings as a form of pneumonia.

Etymology

mod.L f. L psittacus (as PSITTACINE) + -OSIS

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